Paula Abdul is looking back at her time as a judge on American Idol – as the singing competition premiered 18 years ago this week on Fox as a summer replacement – and she recently revealed that she threatened to quit the show in 2008 after fighting with Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson over Season 7 contestant, David Cook.
Abdul says that producers wanted to cut him after Hollywood Week and Cowell and Jackson “weren’t big believers” in Cook. But, she knew he could win the show. “I threatened to quit the show because I believed so much in David Cook, and Simon and Randy weren’t big believers,” Abdul recently told Us Weekly. “I said, ‘This is crazy.
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